Cebu governor Hilario Davide III said 751 passengers and crewmen of the MV Thomas Aquinas have been rescued after the inter-island ferry was in a collision, late on Friday, with the MV Sulpicio Express Siete and then rapidly sank off the Cebu pier. (AP)

Life rafts from the sunken ferry St. Thomas Aquinas float in front of a cargo ship on August 17, 2013 whose bow was destroyed after a colliding with the ferry the night before off the town of Talisay near the Philippines' second largest city of Cebu province. (AFP)

Philippine Navy divers retrieve a body from the waters off the coast of Talisay city, Cebu province, in central Philippines Saturday Aug. 17, 2013, a day after a passenger ferry MV Thomas of Aquinas collided with a cargo ship Sulpicio Express Siete. (AFP)

Coast guard, navy and fishing vessels, backed by helicopters, scoured the choppy seas off Talisay city in Cebu, about 570 kilometres (350 miles) south of Manila, on Sunday but found no sign of any more survivors. Divers, however, retrieved the bodies of a man and a woman in the ferry, which sank in waters about 33 metres (100 feet) deep. (AP)